Can LAAFU effects be modeled?

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This algorithm alone would produce anomalous statistics at the start and end of lines.  Namely, the last word of a line would tend to be shorter than average, while the first word would tend to be longer than average.   We could test it easily by applying it to any running text file.

This seems to check out. Filtering for only in-paragraph lines with 5 or more words, the average line-ending word is around ~1 less character than at the start.